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A School That Made The Grade - Literally
THE NEXT TIME someone complains about the alleged unfairness of national, standardized SAT exams in measuring students' readiness for college, here is a two-word response that should make us all stop and think: Fort Lee. The town atop the Palisades last week emerged as the focus of a bizarre cheating scandal in which high school officials routinely upgraded some students' transcripts to help them get into elite colleges. Equally important, perhaps, this scandal should be a re
18.09.2007: Reaching For Success, No Matter What
Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) September 18, 2007 Tuesday Reaching for success, no matter what; Students' cheating skills improve with technology (however, 'old methods' are still in use) Watchdogs Ease of it Plagiarism the norm? Chelsea Shover, Linda Espenshade, Intelligencer Journal Staff A; Pg. 6 1340 words DATELINE: Lancaster, PA Jon wasn't prepared for a geography test in his Spanish class, so he had to come up with a plan - fast. Did he quickly revi
At What Cost?
Peter Luscombe's classroom is a dying breed: a technology-free zone. No iPods, no cell phones, no Internet -- just a bunch of students, a teacher and books. "I tell them they can use the book, their brain, and nothing else," Luscombe, an English teacher of 22 years, says in the teacher's lounge at Lucas secondary school in London, Ont.. Not so in Joy Hunter's classroom, where Grade 12 English students are sitting in a computer lab, looking for videos online to go with a novel they're re